The Triumph of Nancy Reagan Karen Tumulty (motivational novels .TXT) 📖

“Well, if he is going to be president, he is going to get there without me”: Quirk, Jane Wyman, 46.

“there was a long drawn-out ‘ooooh’… and a white shirt”: Samuel A. Tower, “Hollywood Communists ‘Militant,’ but Small in Numbers, Stars Testify,” New York Times, October 24, 1947, 1.

“There’s no use in lying… coming on for a long time”: “Ronald Reagans Are Not Happy,” INS, Greenville (SC) News, December 5, 1947, 23.

“The plain truth was… no resources to call upon”: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 201.

“Right now Jane… nervous and not herself”: Quirk, Jane Wyman, 113.

a legal petition… mental cruelty: United Press International, May 7, 1948.

“Finally, there was nothing… to sustain our marriage”: “Jane Wyman Divorced; Blames Rift on Politics,” Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1948, pt. 2, 1.

“He vowed, either consciously or subconsciously… expense of the kids”: Meese, author interview, October 5, 2016.

“The difference with Nancy… recover and prevail”: Edmund Morris, “The Unknowable,” New Yorker online, June 28, 2004, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/the-unknowable.

“That hurt… I was just one girl of many”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 81.

so smitten with her that he proposed: Clipping from scrapbook. Handwritten notation indicates it was published December 24, 1950. Name of publication not indicated. Box 20. Scrapbook of Nancy Davis 1950- RFS 11. Reagan Foundation Collection.

he fled the Menninger psychiatric clinic… then reported to be ready to resume what had been a promising film career: Gladwin Hill, “Actor Walker Dies After Drug Dosage,” New York Times, August 30, 1951, 19.

“an actor by profession rather than by accident”: Dore Schary, Case History of a Movie (New York: Random House, 1950), 42–43.

Nancy was padded and wardrobed… She wore no makeup except for her own lipstick: ibid., 51–53.

she would be around for a while in the movie business: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 236.

“As far as we all knew… more relaxed than I had ever seen him”: Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), 87, 90.

when he was naughty: Michael Reagan with Joe Hyams, On the Outside Looking In (New York: Zebra Books, 1988), 34–35.

filling his stomach with her brunch and her soul with his comfort: Morris, Dutch, 748.

“he would figure out what the purpose of his own torment was”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 90.

“Nancy, you will know when he loves you”: Robert Higdon described this exchange between Nancy and Nelle twice to the author, in interviews by telephone on August 1, 2017, and in Panama City, FL, on April 17, 2018.

asking her agent to find her a play in New York: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2000, 2002), 24.

things were finally over with his ex-wife; this time, for good: Higdon, author interview, April 17, 2018.

until she did: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 84.

“ignore for a long time”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life, loc. 1696 of 12608, Kindle.

vaguely aware… getting serious: Edwards, Early Reagan, 430–31.

“only endeared him to me more”: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 122.

Her stepbrother, Dick… “this important step’ ”: Richard Davis, author interview, March 5, 2017.

CHAPTER FIVE

His one concession to the media interest in their nuptials… In the photo, Ronnie looks annoyed: “Ron and Nancy to Wed,” Miami News online, March 2, 1952, https://www.newspapers.com/image/298382069/?terms=%22ronald%2Breagan%22%2B%22nancy%2Bdavis%22%2B%22santa%2Bmonica%222.

“Came our wedding day… out in a cold sweat”: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 239–40.

What had actually happened… “would be perfectly happy together”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 82.

They paid $42,000 for it: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie, 31; “Celebrity Homes: Remembering Reagan’s Homes and Life in the Riviera,” Palisadian-Post (Pacific Palisades, CA) online, February 13, 2014, https://www.palipost.com/movie-star-homes-remembering-reagans-homes-life-riviera.

As a child… life in an incubator: Patti Davis, The Way I See It, 13.

“didn’t want to wait”: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 133.

“precipitously, but very joyfully, on October 22, 1952”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 86.

to see how big it had grown: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie, 32.

“less as an actor than an adversary”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 105.

“with more dignity… under like circumstances”: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 213, 238.

two first mortgages and a second one: ibid., 245.

back taxes he had deferred during World War II: ibid.

child support: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 105.

“I could get work… at a standstill”: ibid.

“a professional kiss of death… living room for nothing”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life, loc. 1719 of 12608, Kindle.

actor and actress who go into ranching: Morris, Dutch, 295.

“You must be kidding!”: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 248.

Prisoner of War: Edmund Morris, Dutch, 754n, disputes that and says he made $5,500 a week for that movie.

conceive a child, or get a divorce: Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, 255–57.

“This is a day… get on with it, then”: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 249.

showgirls in feathered headdresses: “Ronald Reagan Performing in Las Vegas,” photo, January 1, 1954, available at Getty Images, https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/reagan-plays-vegas-in-1954-los-angeles-early-in-1954-when-news-photo/515138960.

“Ronnie could have gone… at home with our housekeeper”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 106.

“I never got bored”: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie, 41.

“I hope I never have to sink this low again”: Ed Koch, “Nevada Was a Place of Reflection and Recreation for Nancy, Ronald Reagan,” Las Vegas Sun online, March 6, 2016, https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/mar/06/nevada-was-a-place-of-reflection-and-recreation-fo.

When aides cleaned out… tucked inside: Michael Deaver, interview, September 12, 2002, Presidential Oral Histories, Ronald Reagan Presidency, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/michael-deaver-oral-history-deputy-chief-staff.

“I had been tagged… ‘mashed potato’ circuit”: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, p. 251.

an instant hit… twenty-five million viewers a week: Thomas Kellner, “Lights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted ‘General Electric Theater,’ ” General Electric online, last modified February 17, 2019, https://www.ge.com/reports/ronald-reagan-ge.

“You see… all these jewels”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 187.

Chief among them… terrified of flying: Morris, Dutch, 305.

He sometimes gave as many as fourteen speeches… get his shoes off: Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me?, 257–61.

“Although he